Anyway, update on adventures in dogecoin. Wow.
So far, I've exchanged Doge for about $71 worth of games for self/friends (example: 15k for a copy of Starbound). Prices taken for games at current sale rate/whatever on steam.
My game trades/purchases average at $1.98 / 1000 currently, low at .71, high at 2.75
I've mined/been donated just above 23k (hashrate ~ 215 on GTX 570 classified, while doing other stuff too), spent about 46.5 k, given away about 5k to friends or as giveaways or charities (example: theres an animal shelter thats taking Doge right now too that I gave to. For fun, one of my giveaway included 'lets play a game' JigDoge here:
http://doges.org/index.php/topic,5104.0.html ). My current Doge assets is about 971k, I bought 1M at $460 when it crashed down before it shot back up later (and now its trickling down again).
Did sign up for reddit, interesting community in the dogecoin subreddit. I see lots and lots and lots of tippy, much overuse of meme (which I'm guilty of myself), and an insanely fast growth rate (already bigger subreddit and activity than litecoin). Even got gifted reddit gold fairly quickly.
On the doge market itself: tons and tons of scams everywhere, you really got to watch out. I guess its an issue everywhere with crypto though. Theres Dogewallet, an online wallet, that pretty much lost it all... but so far has managed to pay back all(most?) investors and some holders, and theres a donation drive as well to pay back the rest (fyi, online wallet = bad idea). I think theres been some bad pools too, and of course just straight up paypal chargebacks and skullduggery (and lots of people getting paypal closed due to trading in cryptocurrencies). Much wild west. Wow.
Overall fairly interesting and somewhat fun: I see people starting to offer services, selling / paywhatyouwant games, etc with doge too. I'm fairly sure later it'll swing wildly up and down just like all the others, and of course be subject to pump/dump bubble bursting too. As is: such game. Wow.
Edit: link added here:
http://www.dailydot.com/business/save-dogemas-christmas-heist/Edit 2: Guess also worth mentioning, someone bought a car for 1.516M
http://www.reddit.com/r/dogemarket/comments/1tnf5h/94_honda_civic_sold_at_dogemarket_congrats_to/Edit 3: And just bought Kerbal Space Program with monopoly... er Doge money. Even if I lose, I think I win now.